[Jython-users] ReadlineConsole and java readline 0.6

[John D. <jo...@tp...>]

Folks

I recently installed the java readline library to get good console 
support on jython under Linux.  I installed the latest version of the 
library (version 0.6), and discovered that it needs the following change 
to run.


--- org/python/util/ReadlineConsole.java	Sat Dec  8 14:38:47 2001
+++ ../jython-2.1a3/org/python/util/ReadlineConsole.java	Wed Nov 14 21:21:03 2001
@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@
      }
      public ReadlineConsole(PyObject locals, String filename) {
          super(locals,filename);
+ 
	
+        // *** JohnD ***
+        // readline library now requires loading first
+        try {
+            Readline.load(ReadlineLibrary.GnuReadline);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            System.err.println("Exception loading GNU readline: " + e);
+        }
+
          Readline.initReadline("jpython");
      }


Cheers ........................ JohnD


John Dickson